Perennial Press: 340 books
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VIII
The Arab-Byzantine Wars and the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The Arabs first invaded Asia Minor during the commotions of 641. In 642 a plan of Valentine for a combined attack on them was frustrated by his defeat; but Theodore and Procopius penetrated as far as Batnae, and an Armenian force occupied Amida and nearly reached Edessa before they were routed. In...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VII
The Prophet Mohammed and the Islamic Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
OUR knowledge of Mahomet, his life and his teaching, is derived entirely from documents which have been handed down by Muslims; no contemporary non-Muslim account is extant, and the testimony of later non-Muslim writers has as little claim to consideration as the statements in the Talmud concerning...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIII
Learning and Literature in the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The alluring dream of Charles the Great has vanished; after his death no temporal prince was found capable of carrying on his work, and it fell to ruins. Nevertheless, the root idea which had inspired him still persisted: the idea of the unity of the Christian world, bound together and grouped round...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XII
The Viking Invasions, the Kingdom of England, and the Western Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
THE term Viking is a derivative of the Old Norse Vik, a creek, bay or fiord, and means one who haunts such an opening and uses it as a base whence raids may be made on the surrounding country. The word is now commonly applied to those Norsemen, Danes and Swedes who harried Europe from the eighth to...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book X
The Carolingian Empire and the Rise of France
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father's death, which had been immediately sent to him by his sisters and the magnates who had espoused his cause. It is a difficult matter to discern through the self-interested encomiums of...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XV
The Eastern Roman Empire from Isaac I to Andronicus
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
WHILE the Germans impressed their characteristic stamp on both the medieval and modern history of Western Europe, it was reserved for the Eastern Slays, the Russians, to build a great empire on the borderlands of Europe and Asia. But the work of civilization was far more difficult for the Russians...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIV
The Eastern Roman Empire from Leo III to the Macedonian Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
THE history of the Byzantine Empire under the rule of the Isaurian dynasty is one of the periods in the prolonged evolution of the monarchy least easy of comprehension. The work of the sovereigns usually called the Iconoclast Emperors has been, in fact, recorded for us practically only by opponents...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XI
The Holy Roman Empire Triumphant
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
“THE future of the realm”, Conrad is said to have declared with his dying words, “lies with the Saxons”, and he bade his brother Everard to bear the royal insignia to Henry, the Saxon Duke, as the one man capable of restoring the glory of the German name. The union of Frank and Saxon had given...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IX
Charles the Great and the Holy Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
THE eighth century had hardly entered on its second half when the last of the long-haired Merovingians was thrust from the throne of the Franks, and Pepin the mayor of the palace hailed as king. The change seemed slight, for the new dynasty had served a long apprenticeship. For more than a century...
by Ernest Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
GERMANY stands in the centre of Europe, and on her soil all the great international struggles have been fought, – the Thirty Years' War, the early campaigns of the Spanish Succession War, the Seven Years' War, the gigantic wars against Napoleon. It is the custom for modern educators to recommend...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Roman Commonwealth, from the time of Marius to that of Julian, had borne the brunt of the onset of various Teutonic peoples. The tribe which bore the distinctive name of Teutones, the Suevi, the Cherusci, the Nervii, the Marcomanni, and in later times the great confederacies which called themselves...
Italy and Her Invaders
Volume V - The Lombard Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
THE four invading nations whose history has been already related left no enduring memorial of their presence in Italy. The Visigoth, the Hun, the Vandal, the Ostrogoth failed to connect their names with even a single province or a single city of the Imperial land. What these...
Italy and Her Invaders
Volume III - The Ostrogothic Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
I have now to record the establishment of a Teutonic kingdom in Italy, which, more than any other of the new states arising on the ruins of the Roman Empire, promised to promote the happiness of the human race, which seemed likely to draw forth all that was noblest in the manhood...
Italy and Her Invaders
Volume VIII - The Frankish Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
Pope Hadrian occupied the chair of St. Peter for twenty-three years, ten months, and seventeen days, a longer period than had fallen to the lot of any of his predecessors, except the twenty-five years which tradition assigns to St. Peter himself. That part of his pontificate...